Phoenix Children's Hospital

Specialty: Clinical Health Psychology

Emphasis: Child/Adolescent

Annual Stipend: $50,000

Benefits: Insurance Benefits: Basic Life insurance, health insurance including HIV indemnity, disability insurance, and professional liability insurance are provided for each Resident. In addition, dental, vision, and long-term care benefits may be selected at a reduced rate. Paid Time Off: In addition to the six institution-wide holidays, residents are provided with two weeks paid time-off each year to be used at their discretion. Books and Conferences: Each Resident receives a $1,500 allowance to spend on educational materials or conference attendance. Residents are encouraged to attend local CME conferences sponsored by the hospital free of charge. Maternity and Paternity Leave: Each Resident is allowed up to 12 weeks leave under the Family Leave Act for maternity, paternity, adoption, or serious illness in a family member. Program directors will work with each resident to make up any time lost so that all licensing requirements may be met in a timely fashion. Leave of Absence: All leaves of absence, including medical, family, military, disability, or personal, may be taken in accordance with the applicable Phoenix Children's Leave of Absence Policy, which can be assessed on Phoenix Children's Academic Affairs Office. The Resident acknowledges that the impact of leave may require an extension of the Resident's program and affect specialty board certification requirements. Accordingly, the amount of leave time that will prolong the training time for the Resident shall be determined by the Training Director and the requirements of the applicable Training Committee and/or certifying specialty board. Library: Each Resident has unlimited access to the biomedical library. This includes access via the internet to electronic databases and stored journals.

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Phoenix Children's Hospital's (PCH's) faculty has specialties in consultation/liaison psychology, pain management, organ transplant, cancer and blood disorders, cystic fibrosis, G/I problems, diabetes and endocrine disorders, LGBTQA+ issues, palliative care, and assessment of Autism Spectrum Disorders. PCH serves a diverse population from birth through young adulthood from the entire Southwestern U.S. The program provides inpatient, outpatient, individual, group, assessment, and consultation services. The aim of the Pediatric Psychology Residency (Fellowship) program is to improve child health outcomes by providing excellent postdoctoral training to enable graduates to excel in practice with children, adolescents, and families in a medical setting. Be engaged in service delivery during at least 40% of their professional experience. Cases will be assigned with increasing complexity (increased risk, less common, greater challenge). Moreover, the resident will be expected to demonstrate greater initiative and independence over the training year (e.g., less reliance on supervisor; developing and leading training activities). Residents will also be mentored for independence as a professional psychologist (e.g., meeting with early career psychologists, preparation for the EPPP, exposure to the state psychological association and its function, understanding of diplomate status/ABPP, etc.) Training will provide greater depth and focus on subspecialty areas of practice (see below). There also may be opportunities to work in the Ketogenic Diet and Complex Headache Clinics – these clinics offer a broad spectrum of opportunities to provide assessment, medical team consultation, short and long term interventions to children (birth to young adult) that meet criteria for evaluation within these specialty clinics. Opportunities within the pain service include inpatient consultation/liaison with patients experiencing acute and chronic pain, (e.g., headaches, abdominal pain, fibromyalgia/amplified musculoskeletal pain syndrome, sports injury, etc.). In addition, residents will conduct new patient intakes in the outpatient pain clinic, provide follow-up care in the pectus excavatum clinic, provide an eight session intervention for youth that includes education, CBT, and teaching coping strategies (in conjunction with physical therapy and pain medicine specialist) in the Weekly Rehabilitation and Pain Program. Residents also follow patients from the Pain Clinic for outpatient psychotherapy. Opportunities within the Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Clinics include the ability to work with the Adult CF Clinic and/or the Pediatric CF Clinic. People with Cystic Fibrosis may be seen for a full spectrum of reasons, including depression, anxiety, feeding issues, non-adherence, managing school/ job/relationships. Residents will conduct new patient intakes and outpatient individual therapy with the option to focus more on certain age ranges and/or issues. Developing and conducting groups for patients and families will also be an option. Additionally, presenting for CF Family Education Days and other similar activities is also available. Additionally, outpatient therapy with medical patients with co-occurring emotional/behavioral problems will be available. During the second half of the year (starting in January) the resident will also be expected to take on a peer supervision role for the current pediatric psychology intern and/or practicum student(s). Supervision for the patients will ultimately be the responsibility of a licensed clinical psychologist on staff. The resident will participate six to eight times per year (paired with a faculty member) in the weekend on-call service to the medical floors (rarely in the Emergency Department). In addition, there are opportunities for scholarly inquiry and quality improvement projects. The Program offers considerable flexibility with regard to meeting the fellow’s/resident’s training goals.